While sequels ruled the box office (again), these best movies of 2024 celebrate filmmakers with originality, vision and boundless DIY spirit.
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Keep art galleries in mind when you’re making your holiday gift list
Galleries offer actual art, books and other merchandise for art appreciators, artists and collectors.
The best TV shows of 2024, from ‘Shogun’ to ‘Ripley’
The best TV shows this year tended not to feature the biggest stars — or have the biggest budgets.
At CMCA, art made from basketballs and interpretations of impending danger
The two exhibits – from Kyle Downs and Katarina Weslien, respectively – are up through May 4 at the Rockland gallery.
Maine State Ballet puts on a magical ‘Nutcracker’
Performances continue through Sunday at Merrill Auditorium.
It’s half a movie, but ‘Wicked’ casts a mighty spell
Heads-up No. 1: In the now-accepted Hollywood fashion, “Wicked” turns out to be “Wicked Part 1.” Two hours and 40 minutes of movie gets you only to the end of the hit Broadway musical’s Act 1, and the intermission is scheduled to last until this time next year. Heads-up No. 2: The flying monkeys are […]
A rousing chorus and the mighty Kotzschmar make the case for opera
The organ accompanied the ChoralArt Masterworks chorus in performing some of opera’s greatest hits. It made for a satisfying, uplifting Sunday afternoon.
Her voice stronger than ever, Lucinda Williams keeps soul of America alive at the State
The singer brought high spirits and a refreshing setlist to her show Thursday in Portland.
Eisenberg and Culkin perfect the comedy of discomfort in ‘A Real Pain’
“A Real Pain” is a comedy about the places people put their most unimaginable sorrows. It’s a buddy movie – actually, a variant thereof, a cousin movie – and it stars Jesse Eisenberg, who wrote and directed, and Kieran Culkin, who slips the shade of Roman Roy and comes into his own as a Puck […]
At Maine Jewish Museum, viewers are invited on personal journeys
See the works of artists Yvonne Maiden, Arthur Yanoff and Don Peterson in separate shows running into the new year in Portland.